Composers

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Let’s Ask Krys Bobrowski

Jul 14, 2011 Polly Moller

Krys Bobrowski is up next in our series of interviews with composers who are premiering new works at the 10th Annual Outsound New Music Summit in San Francisco on Friday, July…

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Let’s Ask Andrew Raffo Dewar

Jul 13, 2011 Polly Moller

Here’s the first in a series of interviews with composers who are premiering new works at the 10th Annual Outsound New Music Summit in San Francisco on Friday, July 22nd.…

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Happy Independence Day from Charles and Greta

Jul 4, 2011 Christian Carey

My parents-in-law have a long tradition of enthusiastic photography. Greta the golden retriever is less than a year old, but she’s already an accomplished model. To those readers in the…

Composers Contemporary Classical File Under? Lectures

12 Slides of Milton

Jun 30, 2011 Christian Carey

On Thursday, I’m giving a talk about Milton Babbitt’s life and work to high school composers at Westminster Choir College’s Composition Camp. It seems only fitting to introduce them to…

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San Diego New Music’s soundON Festival: Evening 1

Jun 17, 2011 Christian Hertzog

Full disclosure: I co-founded San Diego New Music in 1994, served as its first Executive Director, and have been a board member since 2000. This isn’t a review or a…

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Smooke’s “nonopera” premieres in Brooklyn on Friday

Jun 16, 2011 Christian Carey

This Spring, Baltimore-based composer David Smooke composed Criminal Element, a “nonopera” in a fabricated language, for Rhymes with Opera, a company devoted to presenting opera in nontraditional spaces. Alongside works by…

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Symphony Space Celebrates Andrew Rudin

Jun 13, 2011 Christian Carey

Andrew Rudin is well known to the Philadelphia new music community, both as a composer and, for many years, as a professor at University of the Arts. One of his…

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The toy that grew up

Jun 7, 2011 Steve Layton

Many instruments have their 99-cent toy counterpart: tiny play trumpets, cheap plastic recorders, pint-sized accordions, even mini drum-kits with cymbals the size of espresso saucers. But it’s only the toy…

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20th Anniversary of ACO Readings

Jun 3, 2011 Christian Carey

The American Composers Orchestra has been holding annual reading sessions for twenty years now: quite a milestone! This weekend will see composers of concert music hearing their works read by…

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Thursday’s LLList: Locrian, Loadbang, and Lucier

Jun 1, 2011 Christian Carey

As we gallop towards the end of the concert season proper (and towards the bevy of summer music festivals), it’s shaping up to be a busy time here in New…